Awards
- Short-listed for CWA Non-Fiction Dagger 2017 (UK)
Overview
A devastating appraisal of the British investigations and trials of German war criminals by the Orwell Prize-winning author, A. T. Williams A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017 After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol of justice in the face of tyranny, aggression and atrocity. But it was only a fragment of retribution as, with their Allies, the British embarked on the largest programme of war crimes investigations and trials in history. This book exposes the deeper truth of this endeavour, moving from the scripted trial of Goering, Hess and von Ribbentrop to the makeshift courtrooms where the SS officers, guards and executioners were prosecuted. It tells the story of the investigators, lawyers and perpetrators and asks the question- was justice done?
Full Product Details
Author: A. T. Williams
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.391kg
ISBN: 9780099593263
ISBN 10: 0099593262
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 04 May 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
'The death of one man is a tragedy,' Josef Stalin is said to have mused. 'The deaths of a million is a statistic.' A.T. Williams's prize winning debut, A Very British Killing, was a passionately written investigation into the death of a single man - Baha Mousa, an innocent Iraqi hotel receptionist killed by British soldiers in Basra in 2003. This, his second book, is a study in myriad deaths - the Nazi perpetration of genocide - and a prolonged meditation on Stalin's idea that the human mind cannot comprehend mass murder... His theme is the imperfect efforts made by the Allied military authorities...to bring the criminals responsible for these horrors to justice. -- Nigel Jones Daily Telegraph [An] earnest, unsettling book... Williams is a thoughtful, lucid writer, with a lawyer's appetite for detail... A Passing Fury is heartfelt, moving and often powerfully written. -- Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times Williams has put together an original polemic against our assumptions about these trials, including those at Nuremberg. -- David Herman New Statesman This is a fine book that does a great job of debunking one of the most enduring myths in history. History of War Splendid book... Much more than a historical narrative and assessment... This is a superb book which offers no easy answers but invites the reader to join its author on a grim odyssey. History Today
[An] earnest, unsettling book... Williams is a thoughtful, lucid writer, with a lawyer's appetite for detail... A Passing Fury is heartfelt, moving and often powerfully written. -- Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times Williams... carries the reader along in his fluent and passionate prose -- Richard J. Evans Guardian A haunting, sensitive and thoughtful study -- Nigel Jones Daily Telegraph Absorbing... Williams skilfully reveals a chaotic world in which war crimes investigation teams, generally lacking even the most basic resources, were left to do their best in extremely trying circumstances Scotsman Williams has put together an original polemic against our assumptions about these trials, including those at Nuremberg. -- David Herman New Statesman
Author Information
A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing- The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.
